Landslide kills three in Tripura

A woman and her two children were killed when a landslide buried their house in Tripura, police said here Friday.

"Ritumala and her two minor children died on the spot when their tin-roofed house was buried in a mud slide," a police official said.

The accident took place following heavy rains at Sabroom in southern Tripura Thursday night.

Ritumala, 31, and her two children - a six-month-old son and a four-year-old daughter -

were buried, while her husband and his elder child escaped.